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the income of the university has been in- 

 creased from a twentieth of a mill to a tenth 

 of a mill upon the assessed value of the state. 

 The increase is about $65,000, -which brings 

 the university's annual income from all 

 sources considerably above $200,000. The 

 legislature, also, made specific appropriations 

 amounting in round numbers to $150,000, out 

 of which is to be provided a central heating 

 plant and a building for the department of 

 physics. 



Thk daily papers publish the following let- 

 ter from Mr. Andrew Carnegie to the presi- 

 dent of Cornell University : " I have followed 

 with anxious interest your sad plight regard- 

 ing pure water. To-day I read with relief 

 that Cornell has contracted for a filtering 

 plant of its own. If the trustees would per- 

 mit me to pay for it I shall be very grateful 

 indeed." 



Harvard University will erect as a gift 

 from the class of 1879 and from the accumu- 

 lations of athletic funds a stadium. It will 

 cost $175,000 and seat 30,000 people. 



Mr. John D. Rockefeller has offered to 

 give Denison College, Newark, Ohio, $60,000, 

 if the institution will raise a like sum by 

 January 1, 1904, for the construction of addi- 

 tional buildings. 



Dr. Elizabeth L. McMahon, Marion, Ohio, 

 in her will, which has recently been filed for 

 probate, left $8,000 to found a scholarship in 

 Vassar College for daughters of deceased 

 physicians. 



Colby University, Maine, receives $5,000 

 by the will of the late Robert O. Fuller, of 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



The University of Toronto has received 

 subscriptions amounting to $30,000 toward a 

 convocation hall, of which sum Mr. Chester 

 Macy has given $5,000, and Professor and 

 Mrs. Goldwin Smith $2,000. 



Mr. David Davies, of Llandinam, has pre- 

 sented the University College of Wales, 

 Aberystwyth, £20,000. 



The Council of University College, Lon- 

 don, has resolved to institute a new grade of 

 lecturers analogous to that of Privatdocent 

 of German universities. 



William J. Moenkhaus, assistant professor 

 of zoology at Indiana University, known from 

 his papers on variation in fishes, received the 

 degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the recent 

 convocation of the University of Chicago. 

 The subject of his thesis is : ' The develop- 

 ment of the hybrids between Fundulus 

 heteroclitus and Menidia notata with especial 

 reference to the behavior of the maternal and 

 paternal chromatin.' 



Professor Joseph Barrell, Ph.D., head of 

 the Department of Geology in Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, has accepted a position as assistant pro- 

 fessor of structural geology in Yale Univer- 

 sity. 



The following appointments have been an- 

 nounced at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology : Mr. Leonard D. P. Dickinson, as 

 assistant in electrical engineering; Mr. H. B. 

 Litchman and Mr. Frederic W. Snow, as 

 assistants in mining engineering and metal- 

 lurgy; Mr. J. Lloyd Wayne, as assistant in 

 meehaHical engineering; Mr. Gragg Richards, 

 as assistant in geology; Mr. Robert V. Brown, 

 as assistant in inorganic chemistry, and Mr. 

 George E. Bradley, as assistant in metal work. 



The Isaac Newton studentship, at Cam- 

 bridge University, for the encouragement of 

 research in astronomy, of the value of £200, 

 has been awarded to C. M. Cama, B.A., of 

 St. John's College, sixth wrangler, 1901. The 

 Smith's prizemen this year are Mr. H. Knap- 

 man, Emmanuel, second wrangler 1901, and 

 Mr. A. P. Thompson, Pembroke, fifth wrangler 

 1901. Mr. W. H. Jackson, Clare, bracketed 

 third wrangler 1901, receives honorable men- 

 tion. 



Miss Constance Jones, vice-mistress and 

 lecturer in moral science at Girton College, 

 Cambridge, has been appointed to be mistress 

 of the college in succession to Miss Welsh, 

 resigned. Miss Jones has published a trans- 

 lation of Lotze's ' Mikrokosmus,' and has lately 

 been engaged in editing the unpublished 

 ethical lectures of the late Professor Sidgwick. 



Professor James Sully has resigned the 

 Grote chair of philosophy of mind and logic 

 at University College, London. 



